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The basic overview is you want to keep passphrases separate from user access, using public/private key pairs (private keys encrypted with user-provided passphrases). Then you can decrypt the passphrase, change it globally for the sensitive information at issue. This can be done so that users can still access the data they have access to because the passphrase is encrpyted with their public keys.